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A huge cloud of smoke can be seen billowing over the area dotted with security checkpoints erected along a road leading to the presidential palace. The checkpoint also is close to the interior ministry. A lorry bombing in October killed 512 people in the country's deadliest-ever attack. "The blast killed 14 people", Abdiasis Ali Ibrahim, the spokesman for the internal security minister told Radio Mogadishu, which is run by the state.

The search is reported to be part of a broader investigation into possible ties between Cambridge Analytica and the campaign for the U.K. Brexit referendum. Authorities in the United States and Britain are investigating whether it and Facebook broke the law in their use of personal information. According to the court, Judge Leonard will seek a full explanation of the decision on March 27.

At a hastily arranged White House briefing Friday afternoon, Trump told reporters he signed the sweeping funding package "for the objective of national security" even though he was "unhappy about a lot of things" in the massive funding package.

In any case, China's trade openness and its reliance on trade for GDP growth both peaked over a decade ago, and China's growth story is increasingly a domestic one, the ratings agency said. Earlier this month the Trump administration ordered tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, and stocks dropped as investors anxious about the possibility of tougher restrictions on worldwide trade and smaller profits for corporations.

Trump said there were many things in the bill he was "unhappy" about, but felt forced to sign it if he wanted to build up military spending. "I will never sign another bill like this again", Mr. Despite multiple meetings and press conferences , legislators have apparently failed to save it. "The threat of American military decline is now coming to an end", said House Speaker Paul D.

PM Modi pitched the slogan of his new initiative - "Fit India Mission" - whereby, his government would take the requisite measures towards eradicating all forms of diseases from the nation which cease to exist in the developed world. PM Modi said that while calculating the MSP, the input cost to be considered will include the labour cost, expenditure on machines and animals-also including machine and animals on hire-cost of seeds, fertilizers, irrigation, land revenue, interest on working ...

The bodies were found buried near the village of Badush, northwest of Mosul, in an area that Iraqi forces recaptured last July. "We asked how he reached Erbil, but he kept saying "I don't know...just get me out", the foreign minister said.

Miller, 86, died at his north Georgia home after suffering with Parkinson's disease. "My grandfather passed away peacefully surrounded by his family", said Bryan Miller. While Miller is most remembered as a former governor and US senator, his career in public service goes back long before he held either of those offices.

The Israeli army holds that Hamas is accountable for all occurrences in and from the Gaza Strip. As well as leveling the area near the border with Israel, the tractors set up dirt mounds meant to protect the participants from Israeli gunfire.

The Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology was responding to the opposition parties' increasingly outspoken anti-Aadhaar sentiments stemming from concerns about data safety. In a statement issued here, UIDAI, the Aadhaar-issuing body, said: "there is no truth in this story as there has been absolutely no breach of UIDAIs Aadhaar database".

The New York Times tweeted one of its articles about how the authorities investigated the bombings and the bomber with the lead quote: "The Austin bombing suspect was a quiet , "nerdy" young man who came from a 'tight-knit, godly family, ' said Donna Sebastian Harp, who had known the family for almost 18 years".

He was referring to Blaine Gaskill, the school resource officer who was instrumental in bringing a school shooting to a quick end at Great Mills High School in Maryland on Tuesday. Noir and others have said Gaskill's intervention illustrates that the solution to school gun violence is more "good guys with guns". "You have to keep up the pressure and also keep things active at the local level with very specific goals, then you have to publicize all the wins, whether it's a key vote or ...

Sekulow said Trump was "disappointed" that diGenova and Toensing won't be defending him in the special counsel investigation, but "those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the President in other legal matters". He has been key to moulding the president's legal defence in the special counsel's Russia's investigation. The upheaval on the legal team comes at a critical time for Trump.

Trump said he had signed the bill , despite his qualms on some issues, because a $60 billion increase in military spending had convinced him it was a worthwhile compromise. Trump had insisted that any DACA legislation include funding for building an expansive border wall along the nation's southern border with Mexico. "He's made Rinos great again", the staffer said.

Turkish authorities use the word "neutralized" when militants are either killed or captured or when they surrender. The Kurdistan Workers Party , or PKK, said it moved into Sinjar to protect the Yezidi people "from genocide" at the hands of the Islamic State group and are now withdrawing "having reached that aim", according to the statement.

The type of gas hadn't yet been determined, but "any violent act or suicide has been discounted", the prosecutors' office in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo said. The family had planned to then drive about 200 miles (322 kilometers) to Danville, Illinois, to watch a basketball game Thursday, Hoyt said. More than 300 people attended a candelight vigil for the Sharp family on Saturday night at the Adams County Speedway in Corning, the Creston News Advertiser reported .

Thousands reportedly fled the area as Ankara waged war with the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) that had previously controlled the region. Associated Press journalists on a press tour organized by the Turkish government Saturday passed through the northwestern town of Jinderes en route to central Afrin.

However, according to CNBC , a former assistant US Trade Representative for China Affairs, said that China's focus on just $3 billion of USA imports is "very cautious". "China has already prepared, and has the strength, to defend its national interests", Liu said, adding that China hopes both sides can work hard to protect generally stable Sino-U.S.

He was followed by Nadimul Haque and Abir Biswas with 52 votes to each, according to the election results which were announced after the counting was held. The votes of two Trinamool lawmakers - Jakir Hossain and Mrigendra Nath Maiti - were rejected. "Chief minister Mamata Banerjee took serious exception to the incident and ordered an inquiry into it".

If media reports are to be believed Akash Ambani and Shloka Mehta studied together at Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai. Confirming the news, Akash Ambani's proud mother Nita Ambani told Bombay Times, "Marrying the one you love is gratifying and heart-warming".

CA has denied using Facebook data in its work on the Trump campaign and added: "We're committed to being responsible, fair and secure with data". Although you may not have realised how much data Facebook, and other apps which go through Facebook, have access to, there are still laws in place which are meant to protect your personal information.

Nine months ago, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley stormed the United Nations' top human rights body demanding an end to what she said is its bias against Israel and raising the prospect of a U.S. In addition to the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom spoke out against UNHRC's "Agenda Item 7", requesting that the UNHRC move debates on Israeli violations to "Agenda Item 4", where human rights abuses of all other member states excluding Israel are now discussed.

Allen and his mom chose to put on Saturday's event at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church for about 20 children. That goal was easily attained by most, as approximately 60,000 plastic eggs were scattered across the beach for the Great Egg Hunt .

Mr Puigdemont went into self-imposed exile in Belgium a year ago, shortly after the Catalan parliament made a symbolic declaration of independence from Spain. Separatist parties won regional elections in December called by Madrid after they attempted to secede and retained their absolute majority in parliament.

On Thursday, Melissa Willey held a baby. while speaking at a news conference at University of Maryland Prince George's Hospital Center. The 14 year old boy victim has survived, as he has a thigh injury. Emma Gonzalez, a student survivor from the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that reinvigorated calls for gun control, tweeted her support to the students at Great Mills.